Jan 21, 2015
The garden-variety z=0.54 quasar J1819+3845 was once celebrated as the fastest varying radio quasar in the sky. Its flux density sometimes tripled over the course of twenty minutes! This object was the poster-child for the phenomenon of radio intra-day variability....
Dec 19, 2014
For astronomers, the highlight of 1987 was supernova 1987A, the brightest exploding star seen since telescopes were invented. The star that exploded had about 20 times the mass of the Sun, and its demise could have created a pulsar—a spinning neutron star that emits a...
Dec 9, 2014
Professor Tapan Saha (UQ), Chair of IEEE Queensland, presents Samuel Hinton with his award at the IEEE Queensland 2014 Annual General Meeting on 3 December. Credit: IEEE Queensland CAASTRO student Samuel Hinton has just made many astronomers’ lives a whole lot...
Dec 5, 2014
The 2014 Women in Astronomy workshop, at which the Pleiades Awards were launched. CAASTRO has won equal top honours in the 2014 Pleiades Awards, which recognise Australian institutions’ efforts to advance the careers of women in astronomy. The awards were...
Nov 24, 2014
Associate Professor Tamara Davis, who leads CAASTRO’s ‘Dark’ theme, is to receive the 2015 Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science from the Australian Academy of Science. Tamara is a member of the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. A...
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